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J. PETERSON.

DRAWER FOR FURNITURE, 8w.

' Patented Jan. 31, 1888.

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JACOB PETERSON, OF NIAGARA, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

DRAWER FOR FURNITURE, 84.0.

FQ'PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 877,269, dated January 31, 1888.

Application filed May 28, 1887.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J ACOB Pn'rnnsox, a (-itt zen of the United States, residing at Niagara, inthe county of Grand Forks and Territory of Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drawers for Furniture and the Like; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

It has been attempted heretofore to provide means for preventing furnituredrawers from binding in their recesses; but I have found such means objectionable, because expensive and liable to be deranged.

The object of my invention, therefore, is to provide improved means for preventing the binding of furniture-drawers in their recesses. The improved means consist of a split tube fixed 011 a frame in the bottom of the drawerrecess and a rod secured upon the bottom of the drawer to fit and slide in said tube. The equivalent of this tube would be a groove in a crosspiece on the frame.

Another feature of my invention consists in hinging the frame carrying the tube or cross piece having a groove near the front of the drawer-recess.

In the accompanying drawings, in the dit ferent figures of which like symbols of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken on the plane indicated by the line 00 m, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on a plane indicated by the line 31y, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the case, illustrating the construction of the frame containing a groove or tube. Fig. 4 is a perspective view illustrating further the construction of the tube-support ing frame, and Fig. 5 a detail of part of the rod.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the ease or frame containing the drawer. This of course may be any piece of furniture. In this instance I have illustrated a case containing but one drawer; but my invention is equally applicable to a bureau, desk, or table containing any desired number of drawers.

Serial No. 239,071. (No model.)

triangular form, and having a cross-piece, 11, secured thereto by fastening devices or clips 0, so as to lie in the direction the drawer moves. Upon the upper side of this piece I) is secured a split tube, d, also extending in the direction the drawer is moved. If desired, this frame may be hinged at the front portion of the recess by any suitable means-for example, by metal loops cor blocks 6, embracing the rod of the frame and secured to the case A. On the under side of the drawer B, I artach a rod, 0', of such shape and size as to fit closely in the split tube. The split or opening in the tube is made of less width than the diameter of the rod, so that when the rod has been passed into the tube they cannot be separated laterally. Now, in order that the rod may be passed into the tube its thickness is diminished at the point where it is bent up to be connected with the drawer, as clearly indicated in Fig. 5.

From the construction described in the foregoing it will be plain that the drawer will not bind in its recess by an indirect pull on the drawer, because the rod will be heldperfectly straight in its tube, and great annoyance, dclay, and inconvenience are avoided.

I am aware that it has heretofore been attempted to guide and steady drawers in their frames by providing grooves in which projections or lugs on the drawers slide; but in all of the attempts with which I am familiar the sides and tops of the recess of the frame have been employed to prevent side or lateral and vertical movement of the drawer; but with this construction it is not essential (to prevent wabbling) that the sides of the drawer be made to fit exactly in the recess, and,indeed, it may be made of less width in its body portion, so that in being drawn in and out it will not bear against the sides forming the recess. By this construction it will be plain that the drawer cannot bind in its recess by reason of the en gagement of the sides thereof with those of the recess when pulled at a point not in the central line of motion; and because the tube and rod may be of polished metal there will beless friction and consequently less liability to bind when pulled at a point out of the central lin of motion.

\Vhen the frame containing the split tube or the groove is hinged, as hereindescribed, the drawer may be tilted, if desired, without its binding at the top or bottom, as the rod cannot escape from the tube, excepting in the direction of its length.

Having thus disclosed my invention and the best mode I am at present aware of for carrying it out, I claim, and desire to secure of the drawer, whereby the drawer is guided and steadied by the tube and rod alone, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a case or frame for bureausand the like having drawer-recesses, frames hinged at their rears to the bottom of said recesses, and having split tubes secured rigidly thereto, and drawers provided with rods at their under sides adapted to fit and slide longitudinally in said tubes, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' J AGOB PETERSON.

Witnesses:

G. PESTERSON, O. S. P. KLEVEN. 

